Time travelling to Edinburgh

Victorian exuberance or Georgian elegance – you pays your money and takes your choice. At Lyon & Turnbull (25% buyer’s premium) on April 5, it cost a great deal for the former and rather less for the latter.

The undoubted star of the Edinburgh sale was a Gothic Revival chiming clock, signed to the dial and backplate Vuilliamy/London.

Made c.1840 by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, it was, said L&T specialist Douglas Girton, not merely extremely rare but very probably unique.

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